Guest Howard Hughes Posted March 21, 2013 Posted March 21, 2013 Boom boom! Is a flying cow writing your material Tomo?
Bandit12 Posted March 21, 2013 Posted March 21, 2013 You just KNOW you're only a weekend pilot when. . . . . Lack of currency (at least three $s and three 00s spent in the last 90 days) keeps you grounded
Phil Perry Posted March 21, 2013 Author Posted March 21, 2013 Note from the manufacturer: TCAS is NOT to be used for separation! But it's great for helping build the mental picture, after all it's similar to the way the ATCers do it! PS: You know you're a weekend pilot, when you don't have TCAS! I heartily concur HH. . . . but no doubt it sometimes comes in darned handy to reduce the possiblity of inadvertant "Dual Occupancy" of the same parcel of sky at the same moment in time as someone else. . .when you have not got a friendly ATCer for guidance. ( unless of course the other guy is a weekend pilot )
Tomo Posted March 21, 2013 Posted March 21, 2013 Boom boom! Is a flying cow writing your material Tomo? I've been called many things, but I must say, this has the most beaf to it.
bones Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 OMG! Really? Who'd have thought. Give that man a new avatar...somebody...PLEASE! Why what wrong with my avatar? dont you like peanut?
Guest Howard Hughes Posted March 22, 2013 Posted March 22, 2013 I heartily concur HH. . . . but no doubt it sometimes comes in darned handy to reduce the possiblity of inadvertant "Dual Occupancy" of the same parcel of sky at the same moment in time as someone else. . .when you have not got a friendly ATCer for guidance.( unless of course the other guy is a weekend pilot ) With GPS navigation, it is very easy to be in exactly the same airspace at exactly the same time (to within 3 metres)! TCAS has saved me a few times, nice to know you need to stop your decent, then you can get the guy on the radio/acquire the aircraft visually!
Phil Perry Posted March 22, 2013 Author Posted March 22, 2013 Although I love taking my daughter out in a Drifter, I have found that I enjoy the solitude, similarly to riding my bike. I was going to fit an intercom on the bike when I started taking my wife on it, but decided not to. A bike with NO intercom can be a really good "Nagging Preventative" measure, but what if you are suddenly presented with some unexpected and unsignposted road works on a bend in the road,, as did my Brother Graham and his Missus Pam when riding on their Triumph triple in Northern Ireland, . . . . . Graham was unable to give the command, "Eject - Eject - Eject " before running into the wet, hot tarmac and shooting Pam into the air for a few metres up the road ! ! ! Oh well, I guess even bike intercoms have uses from time to time . . . . . ! Phil
Phil Perry Posted March 22, 2013 Author Posted March 22, 2013 With GPS navigation, it is very easy to be in exactly the same airspace at exactly the same time (to within 3 metres)! TCAS has saved me a few times, nice to know you need to stop your decent, then you can get the guy on the radio/acquire the aircraft visually! Yep, . . . great, but . . . how would you find out what frequency the other guy was using HH, I've tried to contact other aircraft on a number of occasions, but here in the UK, they could be listening to any one of several frequencies, and when I've had a close one, I have, thus far never been able to talk directly to any of the other aircraft that I nearly hit / nearly hit me. . . . unless they are listening but are too embarrassed to speak, and I'm not suggesting for one moment that it wasn't my fault in every case either. . . . Incidentally, NONE of the aircraft I currently fly is equipped with TCAS, normally just Txpdr mode A + C or sometimes Mode S. . . . Many private pilots in UK airspace, use F.I.S to obtain a "Basic Service" when travelling long distance, and call in occasionally with posreps or to ask for weather updates at various destinations, . . some of them just don't appear to bother maintaining a watch on any frequency at all . . ( ?) I prefer to use, when available ( from military airfields only ) a Radar Advisory Service, where you are given traffic avoidance information Ideal for flight in the open F.I.R., They also offer a R.I.S. for information only, what you do with this info is your affair, as it is purely traffic INFO. But, thanks to Govt. cuts, these stations are not as numerous as they used to was. . . . Full reporting is only available to IFR traffic using airways, and even then. . . the bloody gliders are allowed to cross class "A" airways without even saying "Excuse Me" "Sartime" as such, just isn't used at all here, unless you are on an international flight plan, and forget to close it. . . . then the crap really hits the fan, and it can get very costly for the pilot concerned. . . . .I'm not sure how much a Sea king SAR helicopter costs to run, but a few people have actually found out to their detriment. Anyway, must run, now,. . . . I have an appointment with a Tandoori Sea Bass, with Naan bread and a nice madras sauce. . . . . OOOROO. Phil
eightyknots Posted March 23, 2013 Posted March 23, 2013 You just KNOW you're only a weekend pilot when. . . . .Umm you only fly on the week ends ?? Bones, you deserve an honorary: . What a genius!! 1
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